CVE-2019-5798 Memory corruption in Chrome

What is CVE-2019-5798?

CVE-2019-5798 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 23 May 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Lack of correct bounds checking in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 73.0.3683.75 allowed a remote attacker to perform an out of bounds memory read via a crafted HTML page.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-5798?

It affects 7 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Google Chrome, Opensuse Backports, Opensuse Leap, Redhat Enterprise Linux and 1 more.

How do I fix CVE-2019-5798?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2019-5798 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-5798 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5798, GHSA-3r7c-93gc-73gw, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-5798.